Vampire Fang Nails

This tutorial shows how to create this vampire fang nail design with two accent nails :)

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For this design you will need three colours; red, white and black. I used (l-r) Barry M #222 Red Wine, MUA All Nude, MUA #2.

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To start use your red varnish to paint two lips on your accent nail. Paint a french-tip style red line on the top of your nail, and repeat for the bottom - do the same for your thumb nail. Next, paint the remaining nails with your black shade.

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The next step is to paint on the teeth; take your white varnish and make dabbing motions along the lips to create irregular oblong shaped teeth; then extend two in the middle at the top to create sharp, longer fangs.

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Then, using your black varnish, fill in the remaining blank nail being careful not to cover any of the teeth.

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Those teeth are a bit too neat for a vampire, so now take your black varnish and carefully add outlines between the teeth to make them look more crooked and scary.

And this is the finished vampire fang Halloween nail art :)

Blood Manicure Nail Art

This is the first of my Halloween themed tutorials that I'll be posting this month: a blood-like, dripping red manicure.

1)

For this nail design you need just two colours; a white and a mid-to-dark red. I used MUA 'All Nude' and Barry M #1A 'Red Wine' 

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Start by painting two thin coats of your white varnish on all of your nails.

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Next you need to paint these red french-tips onto all of your nails; try rolling your nail towards the brush as you paint to create a smooth line, although adding the dripping blood in the next step means these do not need to be perfect.

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Starting with any nail to add the dripping blood to; do this by painting random downward strokes from your tips; these can be oddly shaped so don't worry about neatness. Then add some random blobs of 'blood' further down your nail by simply dabbing your brush onto it.

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Do the same for all of your nails, aim for around two or three downward drips from each tip and a similar number of blobs so that it doesn't become too crowded. Also, try to blend in where the downward drips join the top of your nail, so they do not join too straightly.

And this is the finished Halloween blood manicure :)

(the drip effect looks best upside down in pics!)